Bible in 90 Days

¹ A psalm of David.
The earth is Adonai’s and all that fills it—^[a]
the world, and those dwelling on it.
² For He founded it upon the seas,
and established it upon the rivers.
³ Who may go up on the mountain of Adonai?
Who may stand in His holy place?
⁴ One with clean hands and a pure heart,
who has not lifted his soul in vain,
nor sworn deceitfully.
⁵ He will receive a blessing from Adonai,
righteousness from God his salvation.
⁶ Such is the generation seeking Him,
seeking Your face, even Jacob! Selah
⁷ Lift up your heads, O gates,
and be lifted up, you everlasting doors:
that the King of glory may come in.
⁸ “Who is this King of glory?”
Adonai strong and mighty,
Adonai mighty in battle!
⁹ Lift up your heads, O gates,
and lift them up, you everlasting doors:
that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰ “Who is this King of glory?”
Adonai-Tzva’ot—He is the King of glory! Selah

¹ Of David.
To You, Adonai, I lift up my soul.
² O my God, in You I trust,
so I will not be ashamed,
and my enemies will not gloat over me.
³ Surely no one who waits for You will be ashamed.
But the treacherous without cause will be ashamed.
⁴ Show me Your ways, Adonai.
Teach me Your paths.
⁵ Guide me in Your truth, and teach me,
for You are God, my salvation,
for You I wait all day.
⁶ Remember, Adonai,
Your compassions and Your mercies—
for they are from eternity.
⁷ Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my rebellion.
According to Your mercy remember me,
    for the sake of Your goodness, Adonai.
⁸ Good and upright is Adonai.
Therefore He directs sinners in the way.
⁹ He guides the humble in what is right,
and teaches the humble His way.
¹⁰ All Adonai’s ways are lovingkindness
and truth
    to those who keep His covenant and His testimonies.
¹¹ For Your Name’s sake, Adonai,
pardon my guilt, for it is great.
¹² Who is this man who fears Adonai?
He will instruct him in the way he should choose.
¹³ His soul abides in goodness,
and his offspring will inherit the land.
¹⁴ The secret of Adonai is for those who fear Him.
He makes His covenant known to them.
¹⁵ My eyes are always looking to Adonai,
for He will pull my feet out of the net.
¹⁶ Turn to me and be gracious to me,
for I am lonely and afflicted.
¹⁷ The troubles of my heart increase.
Bring me out of my distress.
¹⁸ See my affliction and my suffering,
and take away all my sins.
¹⁹ See my enemies, how many they are—
they hate me with violent hatred.
²⁰ Guard my soul and deliver me.
Let me not be ashamed, for I take refuge in You.
²¹ May integrity and uprightness protect me—
for I wait for You.
²² Redeem Israel, O God,
from all their troubles.

¹ Of David.
Vindicate me, Adonai,
for I have walked in my integrity,
and trusted in Adonai without wavering.
² Probe me, Adonai, and test me,
refine my mind and my heart.
³ For Your love is before my eyes
and I have walked in Your truth.
⁴ I have not sat with men of falsehood,
nor do I consort with hypocrites.
⁵ I detest the company of evildoers,
and do not sit with the wicked.
⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence,
so I can walk around Your altar, Adonai,
⁷ hearing the voice of thanksgiving
    while proclaiming all Your wonders.
⁸ Adonai, I love the House where You live,
the place where Your glory dwells.
⁹ Do not take my soul away with sinners,
nor my life with people of bloodshed—
¹⁰ in whose hands are wicked schemes,
whose right hand is full of bribes.
¹¹ But I—I will walk in my integrity.
Redeem me and be gracious to me.
¹² My feet stand on level ground.
In congregations I will bless Adonai.

¹ Of David.
Adonai is my light and my salvation:
    whom should I fear?
Adonai is the stronghold of my life:
    whom should I dread?
² When evildoers approached me to devour my flesh
—my adversaries and my foes—they stumbled and fell.
³ Though an army camp besieges me, my heart will not fear.
Though war breaks out against me, even then will I be confident.
⁴ One thing have I asked of Adonai,
that will I seek:
to dwell in the House of Adonai
    all the days of my life,
to behold the beauty of Adonai,
    and to meditate in His Temple.
⁵ For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His sukkah,
conceal me in the shelter of His tent,
and set me high upon a rock.
⁶ Then will my head be high above my enemies around me.
In His Tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy.
I will sing, yes, sing praises to Adonai.

¹ Of David.
To You, Adonai, I call—
    my Rock, do not be deaf to me.
If You were silent to me,
    I would become like those going down to the Pit.
² Hear the sound of my pleas,
when I cry to You for help,
when I lift up my hands toward Your holy Sanctuary.
³ Do not drag me away with the wicked and with doers of iniquity,
who speak peace with their neighbors,
while evil is in their hearts.
⁴ Repay them for their deeds, their evil acts.
Repay them for the deeds of their hands.
Bring back on them what they deserve.
⁵ Since they show no regard for the deeds of Adonai
nor the work of His hands,
He will tear them down
    and never build them up.
⁶ Blessed be Adonai, because He has heard
the sound of my supplications.
⁷ Adonai is my strength and my shield.^[b]
My heart trusts in Him, and I was helped.
Therefore my heart leaps for joy,
and I will praise Him with my song.
⁸ Adonai is their strength—
a stronghold of salvation for His anointed.
⁹ Save Your people, bless Your inheritance,
shepherd them and carry them forever.

¹ A psalm of David.
Ascribe to Adonai, O sons of God,
ascribe to Adonai glory and strength.
² Ascribe to Adonai the glory of His Name.
Bow down to Adonai in the beauty of holiness.
³ The voice of Adonai is over the waters.
The God of glory thunders—
Adonai is over mighty waters.
⁴ The voice of Adonai is powerful.
The voice of Adonai is full of majesty.
⁵ The voice of Adonai breaks the cedars.
Yes, Adonai shatters cedars of Lebanon.
⁶ He makes Lebanon skip like a calf,
Sirion like a young wild ox.
⁷ The voice of Adonai hews out flames of fire.
⁸ The voice of Adonai shakes the desert.
Adonai shakes the wilderness of Kadesh.
⁹ The voice of Adonai makes the deer writhe in birth
and strips forests bare,
and in His Temple all are saying, “Glory!”
¹⁰ Adonai sits enthroned over the flood.
Yes, Adonai sits as King forever.
¹¹ Adonai gives strength to His people.
Adonai blesses His people with shalom.

¹ A psalm, a song for the dedication of the Temple, of David.
² I will exalt You, Adonai,
for You have lifted me up,
and did not let my enemies gloat over me.
³ Adonai my God, I cried to You for help,
and You healed me.
⁴ Adonai, You brought my soul up from Sheol.
You kept me alive, so I would not go down to the Pit.
⁵ Sing praise to Adonai, His faithful ones,
and praise His holy name.
⁶ For His anger lasts for only a moment,
    His favor is for a lifetime.
Weeping may stay for the night,
    but joy comes in the morning.
⁷ When I felt secure, I said:
“I will never be shaken.”
⁸ Adonai, in Your favor
You made my mountain stand strong.
When You hid Your face,
I was terrified.
⁹ To You, Adonai, I called,
and to my Lord I made my plea:
¹⁰ “What gain is there in my blood,
    in my going down to the Pit?
    Will the dust praise You?
    Will it declare Your truth?
¹¹ Hear, Adonai, and be gracious to me.
    Adonai, be my help.”

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² In You, Adonai, have I taken refuge:
Let me never be put to shame.
In Your righteousness, deliver me.
³ Turn Your ear to me, rescue me quickly.
Be a rock of refuge for me, a stronghold for my deliverance.
⁴ Since You are my rock and my fortress,
You lead me and guide me for Your Name’s sake.
⁵ Free me from the net they hid for me,
for You are my refuge.
⁶ Into Your hand I commit my spirit.^[c]
You have redeemed me, Adonai, God of truth.
⁷ I detest those who continue to watch worthless idols,
but I trust in Adonai.
⁸ I will be glad and rejoice in Your lovingkindness,
for You saw my affliction.
You knew the troubles of my soul.
⁹ You did not hand me over to the enemy.
You set my feet in a wide-open place.
¹⁰ Be gracious to me, Adonai,
    for I am in distress.
My eyes waste away with grief,
    my soul and my body as well.
¹¹ For my life is consumed in sorrow
    and my years in sighing.
My strength fails because of my anguish
    and my bones waste away.
¹² Because of all my adversaries
I am the contempt of my neighbors
    and a dread to my acquaintances.
Seeing me on the street, they flee from me.
¹³ I am as forgotten as a dead man.
I have become like a broken vessel.
¹⁴ For I have heard the whispering of many.
There is terror on every side
    as they conspire against me
    and plot to take my life.
¹⁵ But I have trusted in You, Adonai.
I said: “You are my God.”
¹⁶ My times are in Your hands.
Deliver me from the hands of my foes and from those who pursue me.
¹⁷ Make Your face shine on Your servant.
Save me in Your lovingkindness.
¹⁸ Adonai, let me not be ashamed,
for I have called upon You.
Let the wicked be ashamed—
let them be silent in Sheol.
¹⁹ Let the lying lips be mute.
For they speak arrogantly against the righteous,
    with pride and contempt.
²⁰ How great is Your goodness,
which You have stored up for those who fear You,
which You have given to those who take refuge in You,
    before the children of men.
²¹ In the shelter of Your presence
You hide them from people’s plots.
You conceal them in a sukkah
from the strife of tongues.
²² Blessed be Adonai,
    for He has shown me His wonderful love
    in a besieged city.
²³ I said in my alarm,
“I have been cut off from Your sight!”
But You heard the sound of my pleas
    when I cried out to You.
²⁴ Love Adonai, all His kedoshim!
Adonai preserves all the faithful,
but the proud He pays back in full.
²⁵ Chazak! Let your heart take courage,^[d]
all you who wait for Adonai.

¹ Of David, a contemplative song.
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
    whose sin is pardoned.
² Blessed is the one whose guilt Adonai does not count,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.^[e]
3 When I kept silent,
my bones became brittle
through my groaning all day long.
⁴ For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me.
My strength was drained as in the droughts of summer.
        Selah
⁵ Then I acknowledged my sin to You
and did not hide my iniquity. I said:
“I confess my transgressions to Adonai,”
and You forgave the guilt of my sin.^[f]
        Selah

¹ Sing for joy to Adonai, you righteous.
Praise is fitting for the upright.
² Praise Adonai with the harp.
Sing praises to Him with a ten string lyre.
³ Sing to Him a new song!^[g]
Play skillfully amid shouts of joy.

¹ Of David, when he feigned insanity before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he left.
² I will bless Adonai at all times.
His praise is continually in my mouth.
³ My soul boasts in Adonai.
The humble ones hear of it and rejoice.
⁴ Magnify Adonai with me
and let us exalt His Name together.
⁵ I sought Adonai, and He answered me,
and delivered me from all my fears.
⁶ They who looked to Him were radiant,
and their faces will never be ashamed.
⁷ This poor man cried, and Adonai heard,
and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁸ The angel of Adonai encamps around those who fear Him,
and delivers them.
⁹ Taste and see how good Adonai is.
Blessed is the one who takes refuge in Him.
¹⁰ Fear Adonai, His kedoshim,
For those who fear Him lack nothing.
¹¹ Young lions may lack, and go hungry,
but those who seek Adonai want for no good thing.

¹ A psalm of David.
Adonai, oppose those who oppose me.
Fight those who fight me.
² Take hold of shield and buckler,
and rise up to my help.
³ Draw out also a spear and battle-axe.
Stop those who pursue me.
Say to my soul: “I am your salvation.”
⁴ May those who seek my life
be ashamed and disgraced.
May they be turned back and humiliated
—those who plot evil against me.
⁵ May they be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of Adonai driving them off.
⁶ May their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of Adonai pursuing them.
⁷ For without cause they hid their net for me,
and without cause they dug a pit for my soul.
⁸ Let ruin come upon him by surprise.
Let the net he hid entangle himself
—into that same pit let him fall.
⁹ Then my soul will rejoice in Adonai
and delight in His salvation.
¹⁰ All my bones will say:
“Adonai, who is like You,
rescuing the poor from one too strong for him,
the poor and needy from one who robs him?”
¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up.
They question me about things I know nothing about.
¹² They repay me evil for good—
my soul is forlorn.
¹³ But as for me, when they were sick,
    my clothing was sackcloth.
I afflicted my soul with fasting,
    my prayer kept returning to my heart.
¹⁴ I went about mourning as though for my own friend or brother.
I bowed down dressed in black as though for my own mother.
¹⁵ But at my stumbling they gathered in glee.
Wretches gathered against me whom I did not know,
    tearing at me without ceasing.
¹⁶ They mocked profanely, as if at a feast,
they gnashed at me with their teeth.

¹ For the music director, of David the servant of Adonai.
² An oracle of Transgression—within my heart, to the wicked one:
“There is no fear of God before his eyes.^[k]
3 For he flatters himself in his own eyes,
too much to notice his iniquity—or hate it.
⁴ His mouth’s words are iniquity and deceit.
He has ceased to be wise and do good.
⁵ Even on his bed he plans sin.
He puts himself on a path that is no good, never refusing evil.”

¹ Of David.
Do not fret because of evildoers,
nor be envious of them who do wrong.
² For like the grass they soon wither
and fade like a green herb.
³ Trust in Adonai and do good.
Dwell in the land, feed on faithfulness.
⁴ Delight yourself in Adonai,
and He will give you the requests of your heart.
⁵ Commit your way to Adonai.
Trust in Him, and He will do it.
⁶ He will bring out your vindication as light,
and your cause will shine as noonday.
⁷ Be still before Adonai and wait patiently for Him.
Do not fret over one prospering in his way,
over one carrying out wicked schemes.
⁸ Put away anger and turn from wrath.
Do not fret—it only leads to doing evil.
⁹ For evildoers will be cut off,
but those who wait for Adonai—
    they will inherit the land.
¹⁰ Yet a little while,
and the wicked will be no more.
Yes, you will look at his place,
    but he will not be there.
¹¹ But the meek will inherit the land,
and delight in abundant shalom.
¹² The wicked plots against the righteous
and gnashes at him with his teeth.
¹³ The Lord laughs at him—
for He sees his day is coming.
¹⁴ The wicked have unsheathed their sword and have bent their bow
    to bring down the poor and needy,
    to slay those whose conduct is upright.
¹⁵ Their sword will pierce their own hearts,
and their bows will be broken.
¹⁶ Better a little that the righteous have
than the wealth of many wicked.
¹⁷ For the arms of the wicked will be broken,
while Adonai upholds the righteous.
¹⁸ Adonai knows the days of the blameless—
their inheritance endures forever.
¹⁹ They will not be ashamed in an evil time
and in days of famine they will be satisfied.
²⁰ For the wicked will perish,
and the enemies of Adonai will be like the beauty of the fields—
they will vanish—vanish like smoke.
²¹ The wicked borrows and does not repay,
but the righteous is a gracious giver.
²² For His blessed ones inherit the land.
But those He curses will be cut off.

¹ A psalm of David, for a memorial.
² Adonai, do not rebuke me in Your anger
or discipline me in Your wrath.
³ For Your arrows have sunk deep into me
and Your hand has pressed down on me.
⁴ There is no health in my flesh because of Your indignation.
There is no wholeness in my bones because of my sin.
⁵ For my iniquities are on my head—
    like a burden too heavy for me.
⁶ My wounds are foul and festering
    because of my foolishness.
⁷ I am bent over, bowed down greatly.
All day I walk about in mourning.
⁸ For my heart is filled with burning pain,
and there is no health in my body.
⁹ I am numb and utterly crushed.
I groan because of anguish in my heart.
¹⁰ My Lord, all my longing is before You,
and my sighing is not hidden from You.
¹¹ My heart pounds, my strength fails me.
The light of my eyes—also, not with me.

¹ For the music director, for Jeduthun, a psalm of David.
² I said:
“I will guard my ways, so I will not sin with my tongue.
I will muzzle my mouth while the wicked are before me.”
³ So I became utterly speechless,
kept silent even from good,
but my anguish was stirred up.
⁴ My heart was hot within me,
while I was musing, the fire burned.
Then I spoke with my tongue:
⁵ “Let me know, Adonai, my end
and what the number of my days is.
Let me know how short-lived I am.
⁶ Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths,
and my lifetime as nothing before You.
Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah
⁷ Everyone goes about as a mere phantom.
Surely they are making an uproar in vain, heaping up stuff—
yet not knowing who will gather it.^[l]
8 And now, my Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.
⁹ Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Do not make me the scorn of a fool.
¹⁰ I am speechless, not opening my mouth
—for You have done it.
¹¹ Remove Your scourge from me.
I perish by the blow of Your hand.
¹² With rebukes You chasten one for iniquity
and You consume like a moth what he finds pleasure in.
Surely all humanity is but a vapor. Selah
¹³ Hear my prayer, Adonai,
and listen to my cry—
do not keep silent at my tears.
For with You I am an outsider, a sojourner,
as all my fathers were.
¹⁴ Turn your gaze away from me, so I may smile again,
before I go, and am no more.”

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² I waited patiently for Adonai.
He bent down to me and heard my cry.
³ He brought me up out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire.
Then He set my feet on a rock.
He made my steps firm.
⁴ He put a new song in my mouth—
    a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear,
    and trust in Adonai.
⁵ Blessed is the one
who put his confidence in Adonai,
who has not turned to the arrogant,
nor to those who fall into falsehood.
⁶ Many things You have done, Adonai my God
—Your plans for us are wonderful—
there is none to be compared to You!
If I were to speak and tell of them,
they would be too many to count!
⁷ Sacrifice and offering You did not desire
—my ears You have opened—
burnt offering and sin offering You did not require.
⁸ Then I said: “Here I am, I have come—
in the scroll of a book it is written about me.
⁹ I delight to do Your will, O my God.
Yes, Your Torah is within my being.”
¹⁰ I proclaim good news of righteousness in the great assembly.
Behold, I am not shutting my lips—
Adonai, You know!
¹¹ I did not hide Your righteousness within my heart.
Rather I declared Your faithfulness and Your salvation.
I did not conceal Your lovingkindness
and Your truth from the great assembly.

¹ For the music director: a psalm of David.
² Blessed is the one who considers the wretched—
Adonai will deliver him in the evil day.
³ Adonai will protect him and keep him alive.
He will be made blessed in the land.
You will not give him over to the desire of his foes.
⁴ Adonai will strengthen him on his sickbed.
May You restore him completely from his bed.
⁵ I said: “Adonai, have mercy on me.
Heal my soul, for I have sinned against You.”
⁶ My enemies speak evil about me:
“When will he die and his name perish?”
⁷ And if someone of them comes to see me, he speaks falsely.
He stores up evil in his heart,
then he goes out and chatters.
⁸ All who hate me whisper together about me
They imagine the worst about me:
⁹ “Something evil was poured into him—
he will not get up again from the place where he lies.”
¹⁰ Even my own close friend,
whom I trusted, who ate my bread,
has lifted up his heel against me.^[m]
11 But You, Adonai, have mercy on me,
and raise me up, so I may repay them.
¹² By this I know that You delight in me:
that my enemy does not shout in triumph over me.
¹³ You uphold me in my integrity
and set me before Your face forever.
¹⁴ Blessed be Adonai, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
    Amen and amen!

¹ For the music director, a contemplative song of the sons of Korah.
² As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for You, O God.
³ My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
When will I come and appear before God?
⁴ My tears have been my food day and night,
while they say to me all day: “Where is your God?”
⁵ These things I remember as I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng,
walking with them to the House of God, with a voice of joy and praise,
    a multitude keeping a festival.
⁶ Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why are you murmuring within me?
Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him,
    for the salvation of His presence.

¹ Vindicate me, O God,
and champion
    my cause against an ungodly nation.
From a deceitful and unjust man, deliver me!
² For You are my God, my stronghold.
Why have You spurned me?
Why do I go about gloomy because of the oppression of the enemy?
³ Send forth Your light and Your truth—
let them guide me.
Let them bring me to Your holy mountain
    and to Your dwelling places.
⁴ Then I will come to the altar of God,
to the God of my exceeding joy,
and praise You upon the harp
—O God, my God.
⁵ Why are You downcast, O my soul?
Why are you murmuring within me?
Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him,
    the salvation of my countenance.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song.
² We have heard with our ears, O God
—our fathers have told us—
of a work You did in their days, in days of old.
³ With Your hand You displaced nations, but You planted them.
You afflicted peoples, and You drove them out.
⁴ For it was not by their own sword that they took possession of the land,
nor did their own arm save them.
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face—
    for You favored them.
⁵ You are my King, O God—
command victories for Jacob!
⁶ Through You we push back our foes.
Through Your Name we trample those rising up against us.
⁷ For I do not trust in my bow,
nor can my sword save me.
⁸ For You saved us from our oppressors
and put to shame those who hated us.
⁹ In God we make our boast all day
and Your Name we praise forever. Selah
¹⁰ Yet You have spurned and humiliated us,
and no longer go out with our armies.
¹¹ You make us retreat before the enemy.
Those who hate us have plundered us.
¹² You gave us to be devoured like sheep^[n]
and have scattered us among the nations.
¹³ You are selling Your people cheaply—
not even getting a great price for them.
¹⁴ You made us a taunt for our neighbors,
a scorn and ridicule for those around us.
¹⁵ You have made us a byword among the nations,
head-wagging among the peoples.
¹⁶ All day my disgrace is before me,
and my face is covered with shame—
¹⁷ because of the sound of taunting and reviling
from the face of a vengeful enemy.
¹⁸ All this came upon us, though we did not forget You,
nor were we false to Your covenant.
¹⁹ Our heart did not turn back,
nor did our steps stray from Your path.
²⁰ Yet You crushed us in a place of jackals,
covered us with the shadow of death.
²¹ If we had forgotten the Name of our God
or stretched our hands to a foreign god,
²² would God not have discovered it?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²³ But for Your sake we are slain all day.
We are counted as sheep for slaughter.^[o]
24 Awake! Why do you sleep, my Lord?
Wake up! Do not cast us off forever.
²⁵ Why do You hide Your face
and forget our misery and oppression?
²⁶ For our soul sinks down to the dust.
Our belly cleaves to the earth.
²⁷ Arise, be our help,
and redeem us
for Your mercy’s sake.

¹ For the music director, according to “Lilies.” Of the sons of Korah, a contemplative song, a love song.
² My heart is stirred with a good word.
I speak my verses to the king.
My tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.
³ You are the most handsome of the sons of men.
Grace pours from your lips.
Therefore God has blessed you forever.
⁴ Gird your sword on your thigh, O mighty one,
in your splendor and your majesty.
⁵ In your majesty ride victoriously,
on behalf of truth, meekness and justice.
Let your right hand display awesome things.
⁶ Your arrows are sharp.
Peoples fall beneath you—
into the heart of the king’s enemies.
⁷ Your throne, O God, is forever and ever,
and a scepter of justice is the scepter of Your kingdom.
⁸ You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore, God, your God, anointed you with the oil of gladness above your companions.^[p]
9 All your robes have myrrh, aloes, cassia.
From ivory palaces, stringed instruments
make you glad.
¹⁰ Kings’ daughters are among your honored women.
At your right hand stands the queen
in gold of Ophir.

¹ For the music director, of the sons of Korah, according to Alamoth, a song.
² God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
³ Therefore we will not fear,
though the earth change,
though the mountains topple into the heart of the seas,
⁴ though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains quake at their swelling. Selah

¹ For the music director, a psalm for the sons of Korah.
² Clap your hands, all you peoples!
Shout to God with the voice of joy!
³ For Adonai Elyon is awesome,
a great King over all the earth.
⁴ He subdues peoples under us,
and nations under our feet.
⁵ He chooses our inheritance for us,
the glory of Jacob whom He loved. Selah
⁶ God is gone up amidst shouting,
Adonai amidst the sound of the shofar.
⁷ Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
⁸ For God is the King of all the earth.
Sing praises with a skillful song.
⁹ God reigns over the nations.
God sits upon His holy throne.
¹⁰ The princes of the peoples are gathered as a people of the God of Abraham.
For the shields of earth belong to God—
He is greatly exalted!

¹ A song, a psalm of the sons of Korah.
² Great is Adonai, and greatly to be praised
in the city of our God—His holy mountain.
³ A beautiful height—the joy of the whole earth—
is Mount Zion, on the northern side of the city of the great King.^[s]
4 God, in her palaces,
is known as a stronghold.
⁵ For behold, the kings assembled,
they advanced together.
⁶ They saw, then they were astounded,
they fled in terror.
⁷ Trembling seized them there,
pain like a woman in labor.
⁸ With an east wind
You broke the ships of Tarshish.
⁹ As we have heard, so have we seen,
in the city of Adonai-Tzva’ot,
in the city of our God.
God will establish her forever. Selah
¹⁰ We have meditated on Your lovingkindness, O God,
in the midst of Your Temple.
¹¹ Like Your Name, O God,
so is Your praise
    to the ends of the earth.
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹² Mount Zion is glad,
the daughters of Judah rejoice,
    because of Your judgments.
¹³ Walk about Zion, go around her.
Count her towers.
¹⁴ Consider her ramparts,
go through her palaces,
so you may describe it to the next generation.
¹⁵ For this God is our God, forever and ever!
He will guide us to the end.

¹ For the music director: a psalm of the sons of Korah.
² Hear this, all you peoples.
Give ear, all you inhabitants of the world,
³ both low and high,
    rich and poor together.
⁴ My mouth speaks wisdom,
My heart’s meditation is understanding.
⁵ I will turn my ear to a proverb.
I will utter my riddle on the harp:
⁶ Why should I fear in evil days?
when the iniquity of my deceivers surrounds me?
⁷ Or those trusting in their wealth,
boasting about their great riches?
⁸ No man can redeem his brother,
or give to God a ransom for him.
⁹ For the redemption of a soul is costly—
so, one should stop trying forever.
¹⁰ Will he live forever—
and never see the Pit?
¹¹ Surely he must see, even wise men die.
The fool and the brutish will alike perish,
leaving their wealth to others.^[t]
12 Their inward thought is:
Their houses are eternal,
their dwellings for generation after generation.
They name their lands after themselves.
¹³ But the pompous man will not endure—
he is like the beasts that perish.
¹⁴ Such is the way of the self-confident,
and their followers who approve their sayings. Selah

¹ A psalm of Asaph.
God, Elohim Adonai has spoken and summoned the earth
from the rising of the sun to its setting.
² Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty,
God shines forth.
³ Our God comes, and does not keep silent.
A fire is devouring before Him,
and it storms around Him mightily.
⁴ He calls to the heavens above
and to the earth, to judge His people:
⁵ “Gather My kedoshim to Me,
who cut a covenant with Me with a sacrifice.”
⁶ The heavens declare His righteousness,
for God Himself is Judge. Selah

¹ For the music director: a psalm of David, ² when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he went to Bathsheba.
³ Be gracious to me, O God,
according to Your mercy.
According to Your great compassion
blot out my transgressions.
⁴ Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity
and cleanse me from my sin.
⁵ For I know my transgressions
and my sin is ever before me.
⁶ Against You, You only, have I sinned,
and done what is evil in Your sight,
so that You are just when You speak,
and blameless when You judge.
⁷ Behold, I was born in iniquity and in sin
when my mother conceived me.
⁸ Surely You desire truth in the inner being.
Make me know wisdom inwardly.
⁹ Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be clean.
Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
¹⁰ Let me hear joy and gladness,
so the bones You crushed may rejoice.
¹¹ Hide Your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.

¹ For the music director: a contemplative song of David, ² when Doeg the Edomite came and reported to Saul telling him, “David went to Ahimelech’s house.”
³ Why do you brag about evil, mighty man?
God’s lovingkindness is every day.
⁴ Your tongue plots destruction,
like a sharp razor, working deceit.
⁵ You love evil instead of good,
lying rather than speaking right. Selah
⁶ You love only devouring words—
treacherous tongue!
⁷ God will pull you down forever,
and snatch you, rip you out of your tent,
and uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
⁸ Then the righteous will see and fear,
and laugh at him:
⁹ “Here is the man who did not make God his stronghold.
Instead he trusted in his great riches—
    and was strong in his evil desire.”
¹⁰ But I—I am like an olive tree flourishing in the House of God.
I trust in God’s lovingkindness forever and ever.
¹¹ I will praise You forever for what You have done.
I will hope in Your Name, for it is good,
in the presence of Your kedoshim.

¹ For the music director: on Mahalath, a contemplative song of David.
² The fool says in his heart:
“There is no God.”
They are corrupt, commit vile injustice.
There is no one who does good.
³ God looks down from the heavens
on the children of men,
    to see if anyone understands,
    who seeks after God.
⁴ All have turned aside—
    together they have become corrupt.
There is no one who does good—
    no, not even one!
⁵ Will the evildoers never learn?
They consume My people as they would eat bread,
and never call upon God.
⁶ There they are in great dread—
where there is nothing to fear.
For God has scattered the bones of those besieging you.
You have put them to shame,
    for God has rejected them.

¹ For the music director, on stringed instruments, a contemplative song of David, ² when the Ziphites came and said to Saul: “Is not David hiding himself among us?”
³ O God, save me by Your Name,
vindicate me by Your might.
⁴ O God, hear my prayer,
listen to the words of my mouth.
⁵ For strangers have risen up against me.
Violent men seek after my soul.
They do not set God before them. Selah

¹ For the music director, on stringed instruments, a contemplative song of David.
² Give ear, O God, to my prayer
and do not ignore my plea for help.
³ Listen to me and answer me.
I am restless in my complaint and moan—
⁴ because of the voice of the enemy,
    because of the pressure of the wicked.
For they thrust trouble on me,
    and in anger bear a grudge against me.
⁵ My heart shudders within me
and the terrors of death sweep over me.
⁶ Fear and trembling come upon me
and horror has overwhelmed me.
⁷ So I said, “Oh that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and find rest.
⁸ Surely I would flee far away.
    I would stay in the wilderness. Selah
⁹ I would hurry to my shelter
    from the rushing wind of the storm.”
¹⁰ Lord, confuse and confound their speech,
for I see violence and strife in the city.
¹¹ Day and night they make the rounds on her walls.
Iniquity and mischief are within her.
¹² Ruins are in her midst.
Oppression and deceit never leave her square.
¹³ For if it were an enemy taunting me,
    I could endure it.
If my foe was exalting himself over me,
    I could hide from him.
¹⁴ But it is you, a man like me—
my companion and my close friend!
¹⁵ Together we enjoyed great fellowship.
We used to walk with the throng in the House of God.
¹⁶ Let desolation come upon them,
let them go down alive into Sheol—
for evil is in their dwelling, among them.

¹ For the music director: “A Silent Dove Far Away,” a Michtam of David, when the Philistines had seized him in Gath.
² Be gracious to me, O God!
For man has crushed me,
fighting all day he oppresses me.
³ My foes trample me all day.
For many are fighting me arrogantly.
⁴ In a day when I am afraid,
I will put my trust in You.
⁵ In God—I keep praising His word—
in God I trust, I will not fear.
What can mere flesh do to me?

¹ For the music director, “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul, in the cave.
² Be gracious to me, O God, be gracious to me,
for in You my soul takes refuge.
In the shadow of Your wings I take refuge,
until destruction passes by.
³ I will cry out to El Elyon,
to God who accomplishes it for me.
⁴ He will send from heaven and save me.
He rebukes the one trampling on me. Selah
God is sending His mercy and His truth.
⁵ My soul is in the midst of lions.
I lie among those breathing fire—
    sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
whose tongue is a sharp sword.
⁶ Be exalted, O God, above the heavens.
Let Your glory be over all the earth!

¹ For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David.
² Do you really speak of justice, O “gods”?
Do you judge with fairness, sons of man?
³ No, in heart you devise injustice.
Your hands weigh out violence on earth.
⁴ The wicked are strangers from the womb.
Speaking lies, they go astray from birth.
⁵ Their venom is like a serpent’s venom,
like a deaf cobra shutting its ear—
⁶ not hearing the voice of charmers,
    or a cunning spell binder.
⁷ O God, break their teeth in their mouths.
Tear out the fangs of young lions, Adonai.
⁸ Let them flow away like water that runs off.
When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.
⁹ Like a slug melting away as it slithers,
like a woman’s miscarriage,
may they never see the sun.
¹⁰ Even before your pots can feel a thorn
—whether alive or ablaze—
He will sweep the wicked away.
¹¹ The righteous one will rejoice
when he beholds vengeance,
when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.
¹² Then men will say:
“There really is a reward for the righteous.
There really is a God who judges on earth!”

¹ For the music director: “Do Not Destroy,” a Michtam of David, when Saul sent men to watch the house to kill him.
² Deliver me from my enemies, my God!
Set me on high,
    away from those who rise up against me.
³ Deliver me from workers of iniquity.
Rescue me from bloodthirsty men.
⁴ For behold, they lie in wait for me.
Defiant men stir up strife against me—
not for my transgression or sin, Adonai.
⁵ For no guilt of mine, they run and set things up.
Awake! Help me! Look!
⁶ For You are Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel!
Rouse Yourself to punish all the nations.
Show no mercy to any iniquitous traitors. Selah
⁷ They return at evening, snarling like a dog,
prowling about the city.
⁸ See, they are spewing with their mouth
—swords in their lips—
“After all, who is listening?”

¹ For the music director, on the “Lily of the Covenant,” a Michtam of David, for teaching, ² when he fought with Aram-Naharaim and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab returned and struck down twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.
³ O God, You have spurned us.
You have broken out against us.
You have been angry. Turn back to us!
⁴ You made earth shake; You split it open.
Heal its fractures—for it shudders.
⁵ You made Your people see hardship.
You made us drink wine of staggering.
⁶ To those who fear You,
You gave a banner, to be unfurled before the archers. Selah
⁷ Save with Your right hand and answer us,
so that Your beloved may be delivered.

¹ For the music director, on string instrument, of David.
² Hear my cry, O God, listen to my prayer.
³ From the end of the earth I call to You when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
⁴ For You have been a refuge for me,
a tower of strength before the enemy.
⁵ Let me dwell in Your tent forever.
Let me take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah

¹ For the music director, on Jeduthun. A psalm of David.
² My soul, wait in stillness, only for God—
from Him comes my salvation.
³ He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress—I will never be moved.
⁴ How long will all of you assault a man,
to crush him, like a leaning wall,
    a fence to be torn down?
⁵ They only plot to topple him from his rank.
Delighting in falsehood, they bless with their mouth,
but inwardly they curse. Selah

¹ A psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.
² O God, You are my God,
earnestly I seek You.
My soul thirsts for You.
My flesh longs for You
in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
³ So, I looked for You in the Sanctuary,
to see Your power and Your glory.
⁴ Since Your lovingkindness is better than life,
my lips will praise You.
⁵ So I will bless You as long as I live.
In Your name I lift up my hands.^[w]
6 My soul is satisfied as with fat and oil,
so my mouth praises You with joyful lips.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David.
² Hear my voice, O God, in my complaint.
Protect my life from terror of the enemy.
³ Hide me from the conspiracy of evildoers,
from the tumult of workers of iniquity,
⁴ who sharpened their tongue like a sword,
and aimed their arrow—bitter words,
⁵ to shoot from hiding at the innocent,
shooting suddenly at him, with no fear.
⁶ They are firming up their evil plan.
They talk about setting secret traps.
They asked, “Who would see them?”
⁷ They are plotting injustices:
“We have completed a perfect plot!”
A man’s inward part and heart are deep.

¹ For the music director, a psalm, a song of David.
² Praise is awaiting You in Zion, O God,
and to You the vow will be fulfilled.
³ O You who hear prayer,
to You all flesh will come.
⁴ Records of sins overwhelm me—
You will atone for our transgressions.
⁵ Blessed is the one You choose and bring near to dwell in Your courts!
We will be satisfied with the goodness of Your House—Your holy Temple.
⁶ You respond to us in righteousness with awe-inspiring works
—O God of our salvation—
hope of all ends of the earth and farthest seas,
⁷ who establishes mountains by His power,
being girded with might,
⁸ who stills the roaring of the seas,
    the roaring of their waves,
and the tumult of the peoples.
⁹ Those dwelling in the uttermost parts stand in awe of Your signs.
You make morning and evening shout for joy.
¹⁰ You visit the land and make it abundant,
greatly enriching it—
the stream of God is full of water.
You prepare their grain,
for so You have prepared the earth.
¹¹ You drench her furrows,
    leveling the ridges.
You soften her with showers,
    blessing her growth.
¹² You crown the year with Your goodness.
Your wagon tracks drip with abundance.
¹³ Pastures of the wilderness overflow
and hills are robed with joy.
¹⁴ Meadows are clothed with flocks
and valleys are covered with grain—
they shout for joy, yes, they sing!

¹ For the music director, a song, a psalm.
Shout joyfully to God, all the earth!
² Sing the glory of His Name—
make His praise glorious.
³ Say to God:
“How awesome are Your deeds!
Because of Your great power,
    Your enemies cringe before You.
⁴ All the earth bows down to You,
    and sings praises to You.
All sing praises to Your Name.” Selah

¹ For the music director, with stringed instruments, a psalm, a song.
² May God be gracious to us and bless us.
May He cause His face to shine upon us—Selah
³ so that Your way may be known on earth,
and Your salvation among all nations.
⁴ Let the peoples praise You, O God.
Let all the peoples praise You.
⁵ Let the nations be glad and sing for joy,
for You will judge the peoples fairly,
and guide the nations on the earth. Selah
⁶ Let the peoples praise You, O God.
Let all the peoples praise You.
⁷ The earth has yielded its harvest—
God, our God will bless us.
⁸ God will bless us,
and all the ends of the earth will fear Him.

¹ For the music director, a psalm of David, a song.
² Let God arise!
Let His enemies be scattered!
Let those who hate Him flee before Him.
³ As smoke is blown away,
    may You blow them away.
As wax melts before the fire,
    may the wicked perish before God.
⁴ But let the righteous be glad.
Let them exult before God.
Let them rejoice with gladness.
⁵ Sing to God, sing praises to His Name.
Prepare the road for Him who rides through the deserts,
    whose Name is Adonai—
and rejoice before Him.
⁶ A father of orphans, defender of widows,
is God in His holy dwelling.
⁷ God settles the lonely in a home.
He leads prisoners out to prosperity.
But the rebellious live in a parched land.

¹ For the music director, on “Lilies,” of David.
² Save me, O God,
for the waters
have reached my soul.
³ I have sunk in deep mud,
    and there is no footing,
I have come into deep waters,
    and a flood sweeps over me.
⁴ I am worn out by my crying,
my throat is parched,
my eyes fail, waiting for my God.
⁵ Those who hate me without a cause^[y] outnumber the hairs of my head.
Powerful are my enemies who would destroy me with lies.
What I did not steal, must I restore?
⁶ O God, You know my folly,
nor are my trespasses hidden from You.
⁷ May those who hope in You
    not be ashamed because of me,
    my Lord, Adonai-Tzva’ot.
May those who seek You
    not be disgraced because of me,
    O God of Israel.
⁸ For I have endured scorn for Your sake.
Disgrace has covered my face.
⁹ I have become a stranger to my brothers,
a foreigner to my mother’s children.
¹⁰ For zeal for Your House consumed me—
the insults of those who insulted You have fallen on me.^[z]
11 When I wept and fasted—
that became a reproach to me.
¹² When I put on sackcloth,
I became a joke to them.
¹³ Those who sit at the gate chatter about me,
and I am the song of the drunkards.

¹ For the music director, of David, for a memorial.
² O God, come quickly to deliver me,
Adonai, to help me.
³ May they be put to shame and disgrace
    who seek my life.
May they be turned back in humiliation
    who delight in my hurt.
⁴ May those who say, “Aha! Aha!”
    be turned away because of their shame.
⁵ But may all who seek You
    rejoice and be glad in You.
May those who love Your salvation
    always say, “Let God be magnified.”
⁶ But I am poor and needy—
    God, come quickly to me.
You are my help and my deliverer—
    Adonai, do not delay.

¹ In You, Adonai, have I taken refuge.
Let me never be ashamed.
² Deliver me and rescue me in Your justice.
Turn Your ear to me and save me.
³ Be to me a sheltering rock where I may always go.
Give the command to save me—
    for You are my rock and my fortress.
⁴ My God, rescue me out of the hand of the wicked,
out of the grasp of an evil, ruthless man.
⁵ For You are my hope, Adonai my Lord—
my trust from my youth.
⁶ From my birth I have leaned on You.
You took me out of my mother’s womb.
My praise is always about You.
⁷ I am like an ominous sign to many,
but You are my strong refuge.
⁸ My mouth is filled with Your praise
and with Your glory all day.

¹ Of Solomon.
Give the king Your judgments, O God,
and Your righteousness to the king’s son.
² May he judge Your people with righteousness,
and Your poor ones with justice.
³ Let the mountains bring shalom to the people,
and the hills righteousness.
⁴ May he vindicate the poor of the people,
save the children of the needy,
and crush the oppressor.
⁵ Let them fear You while the sun endures,
and while the moon lasts, throughout all generations.
⁶ May he be like rain falling on a mown field,
like showers watering the ground.
⁷ Let the righteous flourish in his days.
Let shalom abound till the moon is no more.
⁸ May he have dominion from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
⁹ Let desert dwellers bow before him,
and his enemies lick the dust.
¹⁰ May kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute,
kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts.
¹¹ So let all kings bow down before him,
and all nations serve him.

¹ A psalm of Asaph.
Surely God is good to Israel,
to the pure in heart.
² But as for me, my feet almost slipped.
My steps nearly slid out from under me.
³ For I envied the arrogant,
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
⁴ For there are no pains at their death,
their body is healthy.
⁵ They have none of humanity’s trouble,
nor are they plagued like others.
⁶ Therefore, they put on pride as a necklace,
and violence wraps around them like a garment.
⁷ Their eyes bulge out from fatness.
The imaginations of their hearts run wild.
⁸ They scoff and wickedly plan evil.
From on high they threaten.
⁹ They set their mouth against heaven.
Their tongue struts through the earth.
¹⁰ Therefore His people return here,
while they drink their fill.
¹¹ So they say: “How does God know?
And does Elyon have knowledge?”
¹² Behold, such are the wicked—
always at ease and amassing wealth.
¹³ Surely in vain have I kept my heart pure,
and washed my hands in innocence.
¹⁴ For all day I have been stricken,
my chastisement comes every morning.

¹ A contemplative song of Asaph.
Why have You cast us off forever, O God?
Why does Your anger smolder against the flock of Your pasture?
² Remember Your congregation, which You purchased of old,
redeemed as the tribe of Your inheritance,
and Mount Zion, where You dwelt.
³ Lift Your steps toward the perpetual ruins—
an enemy has done all evil to the Sanctuary!
⁴ Your adversaries have roared in the midst of Your meeting place.
They have set up their standards as signs.
⁵ It seemed like bringing up axes
into a thicket of trees—
⁶ and now all its carved work
they smash with hatchet and hammers!
⁷ They set Your Sanctuary on fire,
burning it to the ground.
They defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
⁸ They said in their hearts: “Let us crush them totally!”
They burned down all the meeting places of God in the land.
⁹ We do not see our signs.
No longer is there any prophet—
and no one among us knows how long.
¹⁰ How long, O God, will the adversary mock?
Will the enemy revile Your Name forever?
¹¹ Why do You hold back Your hand, Your right hand?
Draw it out of Your bosom and consume them!

¹ For the music director: “Do not Destroy,” a psalm of Asaph, a song.
² We praise You, we praise God,
for Your Name is near.
People declare Your wonders.

¹ For the music director, on stringed instruments: a psalm of Asaph, a song.
² In Judah God is known.
In Israel His Name is great.
³ In Salem is His sukkah
and His dwelling place in Zion.
⁴ There He broke the fiery shafts of the bow,
the shield, the sword, and the battle. Selah
⁵ You are brilliant,
more majestic than nourishing mountains.
⁶ The valiant have been plundered—
they slumbered in their sleep.
The mighty could not lift their hands.
⁷ At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both horse and rider lay dead asleep.
⁸ You are awesome, yes You are!
Who can stand in Your presence once You are angry?
⁹ From heaven You pronounced judgment.
The earth feared and was still—
¹⁰ when God rose up to judgment,
to save all the humble of the land. Selah
¹¹ For wrath upon man will bring You praise,
a remnant of wrath You put on as a belt.
¹² Make vows to Adonai your God and fulfill them.
Let all around Him bring tribute to the One who is to be feared.
¹³ He cuts off the breath of princes.
The kings of earth are in awe of Him.

¹ For the music director, on Jeduthun: a psalm of Asaph.
² My voice to God—and I cried out,
my voice to God—and He heard me!
³ In the day of my trouble I seek my Lord.
At night my hand stretches out untiringly.
My soul refuses to be comforted.
⁴ I remember God and I moan.
I muse, and my spirit grows faint. Selah
⁵ You hold my eyelids open—
I am so troubled—I cannot speak.
⁶ I ponder the days of old,
the years long ago.
⁷ In the night I remember my song.
I meditate with my heart
and my spirit is searching.
⁸ “Will the Lord reject forever
and never again show favor?
⁹ Has His mercy vanished forever?
Has His promise come to an end forever?
¹⁰ Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Or has He in anger withdrawn his mercies?” Selah

¹ A contemplative song of Asaph.
Listen, my people, to my teaching.
Turn your ears to the words of my mouth.
² I will open my mouth with a parable.
I will utter perplexing sayings from of old,
³ which we have heard and known,
    and our fathers have told us.
⁴ We will not hide them from their children,
telling to the next generation the praises of Adonai
    and His strength and the wonders He has done.
⁵ For He established a testimony in Jacob
and ordained Torah in Israel,
which He commanded our fathers to teach their children,
⁶ so that the next generation might know,
    even the children yet to be born:
    they will arise and tell their children.
⁷ Then they will put their trust in God,
not forgetting the works of God,
but keeping His mitzvot.
⁸ So they will not be like their fathers—
a stubborn and rebellious generation,
a generation that did not prepare its heart,
    whose spirit was not loyal to God.
⁹ The sons of Ephraim were archers armed with bows,
yet they turned back in the day of battle.
¹⁰ They did not keep God’s covenant
and refused to walk in His Torah.
¹¹ They forgot His deeds
and His wonders that He had shown them.
¹² He did miracles in front of their fathers
in the land of Egypt, in the plain of Zoan.
¹³ He split the sea and led them through,
and He made the water stand like a wall.
¹⁴ By day He led them with a cloud
and all night with a light of fire.
¹⁵ He split apart rocks in the wilderness
and gave them drink as abundant as the depths.
¹⁶ So He brought streams out of a rock,
and made waters flow down like rivers.^[ae]
17 Yet they added more sinning against Him,
rebelling against Elyon in the desert.
¹⁸ They put God to the test in their heart
by demanding food for their craving.
¹⁹ Then they spoke against God, saying,
“Can God set a table in the wilderness?
²⁰ See, He struck the rock,
waters gushed out, streams overflowed.
But can He give bread?
Will He provide meat for His people?”

¹ A Psalm of Asaph.
God, the nations have invaded Your inheritance,
    defiled Your holy Temple,
    and reduced Jerusalem to ruins.
² They gave the carcasses of Your servants as food to the birds of the skies,
the flesh of Your kedoshim to the beasts of the earth.
³ They poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem,
and there was no one to bury them.
⁴ We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
a scorn and derision to those around us.

¹ For the music director, on “Lilies,”^[ag] a testimony: a psalm of Asaph.
² Give ear, Shepherd of Israel,
You who lead Joseph like a flock.
You who are enthroned upon the cheruvim, shine forth!
³ Before Ephraim, Benjamin and Manasseh,
stir up Your might, and come to save us.
⁴ O God, restore us, make Your face shine,
and we will be saved.

¹ For the music director, on the Gittite lyre, of Asaph.
² Sing for joy to God our strength,
shout to the God of Jacob!
³ Lift up a song and sound a tambourine,
a sweet lyre with a harp.
⁴ Blow the shofar at the New Moon,
at the full moon for the day of our festival.
⁵ For it is a decree for Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
⁶ He set it up as a testimony in Joseph,
when He went throughout the land of Egypt,
I heard a language I did not understand.

¹ A psalm of Asaph.
God takes His stand in the assembly of God.
He judges among the ‘gods’:
² “How long will you judge unjustly
and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
³ Give justice to the poor and fatherless.
Be just to the afflicted and destitute.
⁴ Rescue the weak and needy.
Deliver them out of the hand of the wicked.
⁵ They know nothing;
they understand nothing—
they walk about in darkness.
All of earth’s foundations are shaken.
⁶ I said: ‘You are ‘gods’,
and you are all sons of Elyon,^[ah]
7 yet you will die like men,
and will fall like any of the princes.’”

¹ A song: a psalm of Asaph.
² God, do not keep silent.
Do not hold Your peace, O God.
Do not be still.
³ For look, Your enemies make an uproar.
Those who hate You lift up their head.
⁴ They make a shrewd plot against Your people,
conspiring against Your treasured ones.
⁵ “Come,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation!
Let Israel’s name be remembered no more!”
⁶ For with one mind they plot together.
Against You do they make a covenant.
⁷ The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites,
Moab and the Hagrites,
⁸ Gebal, Ammon and Amalek,
Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre,
⁹ even Assyria has joined them,
becoming a strong arm for Lot’s sons. Selah

¹ For the music director, upon the Gittite lyre, a psalm of the sons of Korah.
² How lovely are Your tabernacles,
Adonai-Tzva’ot!
³ My soul yearns, even faints, for the courts of Adonai.
My heart and my flesh sing for joy to the living God.
⁴ Even the sparrow has found a home,
and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young
—near Your altars, Adonai-Tzva’ot—
my King and my God!
⁵ Blessed are they who dwell in Your House
—they are ever praising You. Selah

¹ For the music director, a psalm of the sons of Korah.
² Adonai, will you favor Your land?
Will You restore Jacob from captivity?
³ Will You bear away Your people’s iniquity,
Will You pardon all their sin?^[aj] Selah
⁴ Will You withdraw all Your wrath?
Will You turn from Your burning anger?^[ak]
5 Restore us, O God of our salvation,
and renounce Your indignation with us.
⁶ Will You be angry with us forever?
Will You prolong Your anger from generation to generation?
⁷ Will You not revive us again,
so Your people may rejoice in You?
⁸ Show us Your mercy, Adonai,
and grant us Your salvation.